Dharma Talk: “F.A.C.E. I.T.” with Jeong Ji
Thursday, August 21st | 5:30–7:00 PM
Meditation begins at 5:30 pm MT, followed by the Dharma Talk (teisho) at 6:00 pm MT.
You are invited to join us for an evening with Jeong Ji at Mountain Cloud Zen Center’s zendo, where she will be leading the Dharma Talk. Jeong Ji’s talk is titled “F.A.C.E. I.T. : An acronym for how our Zen training makes a real difference in our suffering world.”
This hybrid event is free and registration is not required. Please arrive five to ten minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
To participate online, please click on the zoom link below.
sit.mountaincloud.org
Passcode: mountain22
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If you miss a dharma talk, you can find it on our YouTube channel within one to two weeks.
Kindly consider contributing dana (a traditional Buddhist offering) to express financial gratitude to our visiting teacher. Dana to Jeong Ji can be made through Venmo: @anita52feng
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Zen Master Jeong Ji (Anita Feng) has practiced Zen in the Korean lineage of Zen Master Seung Sahn since 1976. She studied with Zen Master Ji Bong from the 1990s, receiving Inka in 2008 and final transmission in 2015. She is married with three children and two grandchildren. For information about her Buddha sculptures, books and teachings, visit her blog at www.anitafeng.com.
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Teisho literally means “presentation of the shout.” It is not a lecture or a didactic discourse but a direct sharing of the dharma springing from the teacher’s experience. A teisho or dharma talk is not intended to engage the discursive mind. Rather, the invitation is to let the language wash over the listener and, if something strikes, to let that resound.
At Mountain Cloud, teisho often take up a koan, a record of an exchange between Chan/Zen masters or masters and disciples that conveys the world they are sharing and carries the seeds of awakening. Teisho invite us to keep company with the ancestors whose practice-awakening (a term from Dogen) is freshly conveyed each time we turn to this living tradition.
